Fall 2020,
Fifth Estate #407

Cover image, Issue 407, Fall, 2020. Front and back page spread featuring a cartoon drawing. The front cover, in righthand portion of image, shows a ghostly gigantic hand gripping a slum apartment building, on the roof of which are seen residents throwing bricks to the street below. A sign reads, "Where We Live." Connected to the ghostly hand and extending left to the back-page portion of the image is a flow of spit emanating from the mouth of a Trump-like figure on the roof of a tall building. The building itself is depicted as engulfed in flames.

CONTENTS

Letters

Now We All Know What Matters
FIFTH ESTATE STAFF

Minneapolis Athanor
STEVEN CLINE

A Right Wing Man Named Cotton from the Land of Cotton Tells the Truth About
Racialized Capitalism
FRANK JOYCE

Life in an Autonomous Zone: Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest
RUI PRETI

A photo shows a line of masked Seattle protesters with arms linked, all facing the camera.

Seeing Seattle An Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
CARA HOFFMAN

The Need for a Revolutionary Anarchist Movement Has Never Been Greater
WAYNE PRICE

Pushing on What’s Falling: Uprisings in a Crumbling Empire
BRYAN TUCKER

Liberating Public Health from the State: Anarchist Solutions in the Age of COVID
BRUCE TRIGG

A haiku in Irish and English
GABRIEL ROSENSTOCK

Solidarity in the Time of a Virus: Albert Camus’ The Plague
FRAN SHOR

Death & the Zeitgeist
JOHN ZERZAN

Life & Rewilding in the Pandemic
STEVE KIRK

Collective Action in the Time of Covid-19: Reflections from Greece
PANOS PAPADIMITROPOULOS & GEORGE SOTIROPOULOS

Dispatch from Exarchia: A Summer of Unrest in Athens
S. FLYNN

Two Faces of Fascism: COVID-19 New Normal and Trump Backlash Pose Grave Threats to Freedom
BILL WEINBERG

Questions We Have To Ask: Planning Living Spaces for a Revolutionary Future
CHARLIE EBERT

Chile Uprising for Land & Freedom: “This Is A Fight We Should Be Fighting All
Around the World”
GARY HUGHES, ANNE PETERMANN & ORIN LANGELLE

Living Our Lives: The Communal Basis of Social Transformation
JOHN CLARK

The Strike That’s Coming: “Who gave you the right to be a landlord?”
DAVID ROVICS

The Hangover in New York: After Wislawa Szymborska’s “The End and The Beginning” (poetry)
KATE ENNALS

Vanzetti! That Day (fiction)
ROBERT KNOX

The Forgotten Anarchist Commune in Manchuria: Where World War II Began
FRANCESCO DALESSANDRO

A Spark In Search of a Powder Keg
International surrealist declaration

The Economics & Politics of Gentrification (review)
MIKE WOLD

This Is What Direct Democracy Looks Like (review)
MARIEKE BIVAR

Artists, Anarchists, & Concierges Battle in 19th Century Bohemian Paris
OLCHAR E. LINDSANN

The World we are Fighting For (review)
BILL WEINBERG

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In case you missed it…
Daily Barbarian Number 3
(Insert in FE Issue 319, Winter, 1985)
Image of Daily Barbarian no. 3, centerfold insert in Fifth Estate #319, Winter, 1985. Story texts are presented as separate pages.
Barbaric Notes
Animals Used in War Research
Elections ’84
Vote for Nobody
The Ballad of Donna Lewis
Art & Anarchy
I’ve Got a Nietzsche Trigger Finger!
If war is the last step, voting is the first!

 

VIETNAM
The failed US war and resistance to it from an anarchist/anti-authoritarian perspective: it’s all here at the Fifth Estate’s Vietnam Resource Page.

 

Spanish Revolution of 1936-1939

Learn more about it and the important role of the anarchists….
at Fifth Estate’s Spanish Revolution Resource Page

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